| D. W., W. W., | | |
| R. W., J. W. | = | Dorothy, William, Richard, and John Wordsworth. |
| M. H. | = | Mary Hutchinson. |
| S. H. | = | Sara Hutchinson. |
| S. T. C. | = | Samuel Taylor Coleridge. |
| J. P., J. M. | = | Jane Pollard (later Jane Marshall). |
| D.C.P. | = | Wordsworth Letters and Papers at Dove Cottage, Grasmere. |
| E.L. | = | The Early Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, edited by E. de Selincourt, 1935. |
| M.Y. | = | The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordworth. The Middle Years, edited by E. de Selincourt, 2 vols., 1937. |
| L.Y. | = | The Letters of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, The Later Years, edited by E. de Selincourt, 3 vols., 1939. |
| Grosart | = | The Prose Works of William Wordsworth, edited by A. Grosart, 3 vols., 1876. |
| S. T. C. i & ii | = | The Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, edited by Ernest Hartley Coleridge , 2 vols., 1895. |
| U.L. | = | Unpublished Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, edited by Earl Leslie Griggs , 2 vols., 1932. |
| D.W.J. | = | The Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, edited by E. de Selincourt, 2 vols., 1941. |
| P.P. | = | The Pinney Papers at Racedown, Dorset. |
| P.W. | = | Wordsworth's Poetical Works, in 5 vols., edited by E. de Selincourt and H. Darbishire, Oxford University Press, 1940-9. |
| B.L. | = | Biographia Literaria, by S. T. Coleridge. |
| A.P. | = | Anima Poetae (extracts from Coleridge's note-books), 1895. |
| Prel. | = | Wordsworth's Prelude, edited by E. de Selincourt, 1928. |
| E.W. | = | An Evening Walk. |
| D.S. | = | Descriptive Sketches. |
| L. | = | La Jeunesse de Wordsworth, by E. Legouis, 1895. (English transla- tion 1898: The Early Life of William Wordsworth.) |
| A.V. | = | William Wordsworth and Annette Vallon, by E. Legouis, 1922. |
| Harper | = | William Wordsworth, his Life, Work and Influence, by G. M. Harper , 2 vols., 1916. |
| Cottle | = | Early Recollections chiefly relating to the late Samuel Taylor Coleridge, by Joseph Cottle, 2 vols., 1837. |
| Lamb | = | The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, edited by E. V. Lucas, 1935. |
| Lowes | = | The Road to Xanadu, by J. Livingstone Lowes, 1927. |
| T. P. | = | Thomas Poole and his Friends, by Mrs. Henry Sandford, 2 vols., 1888. |